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W. G. WILSON.

HAT SEGURING ATTACHMENT. No. 535,780. Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

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miren STATES arnnr rrr-cnt WILLIAM GORDON WILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWIS CALDER, OF SAME PLACE.

HAT-SECURING ATTACHMENT.

SIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,780, dated March12, 1895. Application tiled January 15,1895. Serial No. 535.005. (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GORDON WIL- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SecuringAttachments for Ladies Hats; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of vthe invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devicesfor retaining ladies hats in place upon the head. It has for its objectto dispense with the usual ref movable hat pins and to thus avoid theconstant puncturing, disfigurement and final destruction of the hat; andwith these ends in view my inventionconsists of a hat securing device.adapted to be secured to the hat -at a point which shall be out ofsight when the hat is in place, and which shall be capable of readyadjustment and efficient for the purpose for which it is designed.

In order that those skilled in the art may fully understand my inventionI will proceed to describe the construction, application and operationof the same, referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l is a perspective view of a ladys hat with my retainingdevice secured in place thereto. Fig. 2 is a bottom view; and Fig. 3llls a plan view of the device removed from the Similar letters ofreference denote like parts in the several views.

A is an ordinary ladys hat of any special design or material.

B B are two pieces of spring wire bent at a to form a spring coil, andextended below the coil to constitute a downwardly, inwardly andforwardly curved prong or point b. The opposite or remaining portion ofthe wire is bent to conform to the general contour of the head openingof the hat, and is secured thereto by ordinary stitching, as seen at c.

D is a tubular or hollow metallic housing adapted toreceive the freeforward or front ends of the Wires B B. This housingmay be formed withsuitable barbs by means of which it may be readily secured to the frontportion of the crown of the hat, or it may be secured in position bystitching or otherwise, and the employment of this housing or tube Denables the wires to be cut at the forward ends to any suitable extentin order that they may properly t the size and contour of the hat, andwhen the ends are placed within the housing the wires become practicallya single continuous wire. The wires and the housing are secured inposition at or about at the line of juncture between the crown and rimof the hat, so that they will be practically concealed, or may beentirely so when covered by the usual trimming or nish given to theunder side of the hat.

In placing the hat -in position upon the head the prongs b, b,y arepreferably sprung apart, as shown in dotted lines at Fig. l, and theninserted in the hair of the wearer and pushed forward until the hat isin proper position on the head. The curvature of the prongs tends tosecure a proper retaining hold upon. the hair, but in addition theretothe tendency of the prongs to return to their normal position andrelation with each other produces a transverse or sidewise clampingaction upon the lhair and head of the wearer, thus holding the hat morefirmly in position than can be accomplished by the use of ordinary hatpins.

I do not wish to be confined to the use of the housing tube D, as it maybe dispensed with and the ends of the wire secured by stitching, but Iprefer the use of the housing as it adds greatly to the stability of thedevice. The genus of my invention consists in the idea of constructingthe device in two parts so that the ends may be cut for the purposes ofadjustment to hats of various sizes, and forming the opposite ends withthe spring coil d, and downwardly, inwardly and forwardly projectingprong b. With this construction it will be seen that when the wires aresecured in proper position upon the hat the pressing apart of the prongsb is resisted by the' curved portion of the wire resting against the hatbetween the coil a and the forward ends, so that the clamping actionhereinbefore referred to is obtained.

The wires constituting the fastening device may be braided, japanned orotherwise coated or covered to conceal the metal much in the same way asordinary bonnet frame wire, or it may be left in its natural conditionand when secured to the hat, concealed by any suitable under trimming. y

Having described the construction, application, and mode of operation ofmy improved securing attachment, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

I. A securing attachment for ladies hats composed of two pieces ofspringwire B, coiled as shown at a, provided with inwardly, downwardly andforwardly projecting prongs b and adapted to be secured in position,substantially as herein before set forth.

2. In combination With the hat A, the Wires B B constructed asdescribed, and the housing D concealing and retaining the forward endsof the wires, said wires and the housing D being secu red to theunderside of the hat, substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM GORDON WILSON. Vitnesses:

IRA OALDER, LEwIsOALDER.

